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Consistantly the most popular topic on the site, Birth Order and Personality Traits. Does birth order determine your personality? As parents can we utilize these traits to bring out the best in our children? As adults can we identify with these traits to help us overcome our upbringing? You decide, if you have any questions or comments please feel free to contact me via the bio page.
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Is your family close? Do you look at close families with envy? Do you want you children as adults to call you regularly? On family holidays do you want your kids to bring your future grandchildren over for a feast?
Can parents encourage close ties with their children and between their children? I think so, in today's world close families are not the norm and it does take work if you want one. What do you see in your future, lonely days in an old folks home or are you surrounded by your children & grandchildren? It can be achieved, it just takes work, and aren't they worth it?
- Encouraging Close Sibling Relationships, why it is so important that they are Friends.
- Ideas to bring your children closer together in point form.
- Siblings that are Friends not Enemies
- 'My Brother's Keeper' Instilling a sense of responsibility for each other.
- Can siblings share each other's successes or should it be a competition?
- Teaching your children to care about and for each other, what we can learn from Martha, Mary and Lazarus.
- Top 10 Ideas to Build Close Loving Families.
Sibling Rivalry
This topic is an intrical part of building a close family as a rivalry can lead to siblings being bitter rivals rather than close friends. How parents act with their children, preceived or otherwise, is an intrecal part of sibling rivalry. Your actions and words can either quench the fire or add fuel to the flame.
- 'MAKE THEM STOP!' Ideas to help stop the fighting so that you can have a peaceful home.
- When one child is a bully and the other is a victim, how you react can either encourage or discourage this behavior.
- Love is a choice, teaching siblings to choose to love each other, even when their mad.
- Ideas to get kids to share.
- How to use hurt feelings to create empathy for each other
- Do you have issues with your sibling? Can you overcome them to feel like you belong in your family?
- Parental favortism, real or perceived, can ruin a sibling relationship. Is it important to give the same amount of gifts?
Finding Time for Family
An important part of building close family ties is finding time to spend together. Time is a limited resource, there is only so much of it and it is finite, you cannot make a day longer. How you spend your time tells your children what and who is important in their lives.
- Taking time for our children.
- Ideas for time management
- Save time in the kitchen
- Save time when running errands.
- Reduce stress and find time.
- Working moms, are you paying to work or working to enhance your families life?
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Even if you don't believe in the Bible or the Christian ideal of God, there are lots of wonderful lessons about life and sibling relationships we can learn from it. From Cain and Able to Martha and Mary, the Bible is filled with stories about siblings that teach wonderful lessons. The Bible is filled with pure morals like loving one another, teaching children these ideals will only enhance their lives.
- What is Love and can we teach our children what real love is?
- Love is a conduct, teaching children to behave in a loving manner.
- Love is a choice, teaching siblings to choose to love each other, even when their mad.
- Love is a choice, teaching siblings to choose to love each other, even when their mad.
- Killing your brother is not a good idea, when one child feels resentment toward the other.
- Teaching siblings how to be responsible for each other.
- Teaching children how to pray using the Lord's Prayer as a guide.
- 10 points you need to know about what Jesus said about prayer.
- Don't hide from the secular world, use it as a teaching tool - Talking to teens about the DaVinci Code.
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Are you looking for the right quote or poem for siblings? Do you have a question or want to share a story, quote or poem? Email me via the bottom of the bio page.
- Quotes for Sisters.
- To a Special Sister, a poem.
- Quotes for Family, children, Parents, and siblings.
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- Reviews on Books, Toys, and Games.
- List of my favorite parenting books.
- List of my favorite christian living books.
- List of my favorite books for boys 6 years & up.
- List of my favorite family movies.
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The forum is the interactive part of BellaOnline's Siblings Site. You can come the the forum and always be assured that at least one person will write you an answer! I check the forum daily, and I look forward to lots of feedback on my various offerings. Here's the link: Siblings Forum
